Yeah, soda was my big addiction. It was harder for me to quit drinking soda than it was for me to quit smoking. I just went to Costco yesterday and bought a lot of Green Tea. I bought over a hundred bottle of Diet Lipton Green Tea($10 for a 24 pack) and countless teabags. Who ever it was on this site who told me to get a costco membership THANK YOU. I have saved so much money on my diet.

I read a paper a while ago that I think Men's Health mentioned saying that the beneficial effects of green tea are completely non-existent when mixed with Milk. Personally I think it tastes fine on its own, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

I switched to it for a bit at work. Whilst nice I didn't see any beneficial effects. Then again this could be because I usually drink 6 - 8 mugs of normal tea every day anyway which has been shown to have a lot of the benefits of green tea (supposedly...)

White Tea, Green Tea, Oolong Tea, and Black Tea are all the same plant: the Camellia Sinensis tea plant,

but they're oxidized or treated in different ways for different periods of time;

different green teas use different processes for stopping the oxidation process early (i.e. steaming, pan-frying, flash-drying, etc).

It would make sense that black tea would have many of the same benefits as other Camellia Sinensis leaf products.

Yeah, soda was my big addiction. It was harder for me to quit drinking soda than it was for me to quit smoking. I just went to Costco yesterday and bought a lot of Green Tea. I bought over a hundred bottle of Diet Lipton Green Tea($10 for a 24 pack) and countless teabags. Who ever it was on this site who told me to get a costco membership THANK YOU. I have saved so much money on my diet.

I never drink soda anymore. Ever. Seriously, I think the last one I drank was a root beer in Iraq almost two years ago. The weirdest thing is, once you no longer have it in your diet, you don't miss it at all.

I never drink soda anymore. Ever. Seriously, I think the last one I drank was a root beer in Iraq almost two years ago. The weirdest thing is, once you no longer have it in your diet, you don't miss it at all.

mixed drinks... that's about the only thing to use soda with anymore

In summation your argument denotes a lack of intellectual honesty on your part. It is my contention that this matter would best be solved with fisticuffs. I believe I will be victorious in this regard.